Tonnes of supermarket food wasted in green deal

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Supermarkets are wasting thousands of tonnes of surplus food because subsidies
for green energy make it cheaper to turn it into biogas than to donate it to
hungry families, according to a leading charity.

The government is spending millions of pounds subsidising the construction and
operation of anaerobic digestion plants that are converting up to 100,000
tonnes of edible food a year into biogas, FareShare said.

The subsidies mean that retailers and their suppliers can dispose of surplus
food much more cheaply by sending it to these plants rather than delivering
it to charities.

Frank Field, the former Labour welfare

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Taxpayers’ money is being used to destroy edible food, Frank Field said

June 3 2014 Nick Ansell/PA

Taxpayers’ money is being used to destroy edible food, Frank Field said